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# asphalt

«asphalt» in Mova's school dictionary: **a black sticky material mixed with stones and used to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (asphalt — uncountable); verb (asphalt, asphalts, asphalted, asphalting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Asphalt is a black sticky material mixed with stones and used to make road surfaces and playgrounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asphalt/#m1)

2) To asphalt means to cover a road or area with asphalt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asphalt/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: roads, car parks and school playgrounds; in science, asphalt gets hot in the sun; in safety, falling on asphalt grazes knees; also called tarmac (UK), blacktop (US) and bitumen (Australia).

### examples

- The new road was covered with fresh asphalt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asphalt/#x1)
- The asphalt felt hot under our bare feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asphalt/#x2)
- I fell over and scraped my knee on the asphalt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asphalt/#x3)
- Workers asphalted the school car park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asphalt/#x4)
- Asphalt smells strong when it is being laid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asphalt/#x5)

### note

Uncountable. Spelling trap: «asphalt», not «ashphalt». In the UK people usually say «tarmac», in the US «blacktop», in Australia «bitumen».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «asphalt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asphalt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.